MAKING a welcome return to Birmingham's Botanical Gardens, are the NC Big Band for a midsummer music treat on July 10 presents continuous music from 6.30pm through to 10pm.

Big band music fans will be able to celebrate all that's great from the 1930s and 1940s onwards, such as Dorsey, Miller and Duke Ellington, as well as vocalists like Sinatra. Providing most of the voices will be lead vocalist Terry Smith and Ruth Lowe.